Virtual Workshop 2026 - AI Meets CI - Day 1 - Panel I: Adoption of AI in Major and Mid-scale Facilities
Panel I: Adoption of AI in Major and Mid-scale Facilities (MFs)
Panelists: Benedikt Riedel (NSF IceCube), Leanne Guy (Rubin/LSST), Javier Duarte (CMS), Krishna Kumar (TACC)
Moderated by Anirban Mandal, Associate Director, NSF CI Compass
- AI from the Edge of the World to the Edge of the Universe, Benedikt Riedel, NSF IceCube
- Adoption of AI at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Leanne Guy, Data Management Scientist, Rubin Observatory, Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)
- Searching for new physics at the energy and intelligence frontiers, Javier Duarte, Associate Professor of Physics at the University of California San Diego
- AI-enabled semantic search in heterogenous dataset in DesignSafe, Krishna Kumar, Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin
The NSF CI Compass virtual workshop - AI Meets CI: Intelligent Infrastructure for Major & Midscale Facilities featured themes to host speakers, presentations, and discussions surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and cyberinfrastructure (CI) within the data lifecycle in facilities, cloud computing, and about societal and human intersections with AI.
Originally hosted January 12, 13, and 14, 2026
This project is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in the Directorate for Computer Information Science under Grant #2127548.